detection of nuclear explosions
51Bomb Power Indicator — known by the accronym BPI was a detection instrument, located at the twenty five British Royal Observer Corps controls and nearly 1,000 ROC underground monitoring posts, across the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, during the Cold War that… …
52Iran and weapons of mass destruction — This article is about Iran and weapons of mass destruction. For Iran s nuclear power program, see Nuclear program of Iran. Weapons of mass destruction …
53radioactivity — /ray dee oh ak tiv i tee/, n. Physics, Chem. the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element. Also called activity. [1895… …
54Enrico Fermi — Infobox Scientist name = Enrico Fermi birth date = birth date|1901|9|29|df=y birth place = Rome, Italy death date = death date and age|1954|11|28|1901|9|29 death place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. citizenship = Italy (1901 1938) United States (1944… …
55lake — lake1 /layk/, n. 1. a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land. 2. any similar body or pool of other liquid, as oil. 3. (go) jump in the lake, (used as an exclamation of dismissal or impatience.) [bef. 1000; ME lak(e) …
56Lake — /layk/, n. Simon, 1866 1945, U.S. engineer and naval architect. * * * I Relatively large body of slow moving or standing water that occupies an inland basin. Lakes are most abundant in high northern latitudes and in mountain regions, particularly …
57transuranium element — Any of the chemical elements after uranium in the periodic table (with atomic numbers greater than 92). All are radioactive (see radioactivity), with half lives ranging from tens of millions of years to fractions of a millisecond. Only two,… …
58Microbarom — In acoustics, microbaroms, also known as the voice of the sea ,[1][2] are a class of atmospheric infrasonic waves generated in marine storms[3][4] by a non linear interaction of ocean surface waves with the atmosphere …
59LGM-30 Minuteman — Type Intercontinental ballistic missile Service hist …
60Ionizing radiation — consists of highly energetic particles or waves that can detach (ionize) at least one electron from an atom or molecule. Ionizing ability depends on the energy of the impinging individual particles or waves, and not on their number. A large flood …
